Sentence examples for overcome dire from inspiring English sources

The Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, testified that the Air Force "may not be able to overcome dire consequences".

And the question consuming Kalra is can "the financially worst-off person" in India "be empowered" — be given the basic tools to acquire enough skills to overcome dire poverty.

We're saying we've overcome dire situations before.

To which there is a very simple answer: people all over the world plough the internet every day searching for mirrors to their own pain, looking for evidence that people have overcome dire mental discomfort.

To which there is a very simple answer: People all over the world plough the internet every day searching for mirrors to their own pain, looking for evidence that people have overcome dire mental discomfort.

The campaign will pit a conservative downstate Republican lawmaker against the sitting Democratic governor, who must overcome a dire state budget gap as well as memories of the ousted Democratic governor Rod R. Blagojevich.

Mr. Obama's team is hoping that voters will see his actions as president in light of a slowly improving economy and conclude that he has done what he could to overcome a dire economic collapse.

To overcome the dire situation, the Knicks will have to do what neither team has done over two years of playing each other in the playoffs: win two in a row.

Team Malaysia and Team France overcame dire weather conditions to win in the opening round of the 2008-09 atGP season at Zandvoort in the Netherlands.

Among the efforts in overcoming this dire scenario, motorcycle simulators were developed.

Time and again, the adaptability of the world's smartest engineers have overcome the most dire threats to computing and the internet.